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ArcSight Analytics vs ArcSight Logger comparison

 

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Review summaries and opinions

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Categories and Ranking

ArcSight Analytics
Average Rating
6.8
Reviews Sentiment
6.7
Number of Reviews
15
Ranking in other categories
User Entity Behavior Analytics (UEBA) (18th)
ArcSight Logger
Average Rating
7.6
Reviews Sentiment
5.8
Number of Reviews
32
Ranking in other categories
Log Management (33rd)
 

Mindshare comparison

ArcSight Analytics and ArcSight Logger aren’t in the same category and serve different purposes. ArcSight Analytics is designed for User Entity Behavior Analytics (UEBA) and holds a mindshare of 1.9%, up 1.1% compared to last year.
ArcSight Logger, on the other hand, focuses on Log Management, holds 0.9% mindshare, up 0.7% since last year.
User Entity Behavior Analytics (UEBA) Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
ArcSight Analytics1.9%
Exabeam9.0%
IBM Security QRadar7.6%
Other81.5%
User Entity Behavior Analytics (UEBA)
Log Management Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
ArcSight Logger0.9%
Splunk Enterprise Security7.0%
IBM Security QRadar4.5%
Other87.6%
Log Management
 

Featured Reviews

reviewer1311453 - PeerSpot reviewer
Consultant at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
Good filtering and reporting tools but can be difficult to use
It can scale as needed. It's not a problem. There are different teams using it. We have CSOC, which is internal, which is onshore, then we have a security operations center that is offshore, which would be in India. The onshore team might be a group of three, and the offshore might be a group of five. Likely, we have eight to ten people in total using the product directly.
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Sr. Cybersecurity Consultant IT/OT at EJADA
Compliance and cost-effectiveness have improved while critical infrastructure security adapts to evolving needs
ArcSight Logger fulfills compliance requirements and passes audit requirements. It is one of the Aramco standards requirements and is recommended by Aramco for any implementation. Aramco, SABIC, water companies, and electricity companies are critical infrastructure with air-gapped networks. In an air-gapped network, there is no communication going out from that network area to the outside world, even to the corporate network. ArcSight Logger is installed on minimal resources with minimal requirements. There are not many upgrades or new features that come up frequently, though they do occur occasionally.

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"This is a very stable solution. It is the most stable ESM that I have worked with."
"The most valuable features are that you get lots of connectors, which make it easy to log in to my ASM, and lots of prebuilt roles from the company."
"ArcSight Analytics has improved our system and network policy monitoring."
"The features I have found most valuable are its capabilities for behavioral analytics and anomaly detection."
"This solution allows us to identify connections for all users, and we can see the name, login time, IP address, and other information for each connection to each server."
"The correlation engine is good."
"I like their filtering and their reporting tools, I like their integration with many other different tool sets, which is similar to other products as well, the solution is easy to implement, and I have found the product to be quite stable and scalable."
"The solution is easy to implement."
"It provides in-depth information on business activities once we log into the system."
"It is one of the best products available in the market."
"The technical support team is good...It is a scalable solution."
"The most important thing is the scalability of the product and its ease of use."
"I would definitely say to go with this product as it's the best in the market, but before opting for this product your perform solution-sizing because otherwise you might end up digging your own grave in fixing it."
"ArcSight has improved incident response from days to minutes."
"We haven't had any crashes or bugs. It is stable."
"The machine learning is a good feature."
 

Cons

"It needs more user analytics and aggregation user queries. And it's slow. When you query over ArcSight, it is very slow."
"There is a GUI, but it is not complete and lacks functionality that needs to be performed using the console."
"It's a difficult product to navigate, it's complex."
"The interactive dashboard is more complicated comparing to his concurrent Qradar and you need to have training in order to do complexe configuration, so I think that it could be made easier to use."
"Network integration is very crucial, and you need to have the knowledge to get it done."
"Currently, there are no compatible connectors for this solution, which means we have to depend on FlexConnectors."
"You can use this solution for limited use cases. But for more advanced use cases, there are other solutions which are better than ArcSight."
"The GUI interface is not always intuitive and easy for non-technical users to work with."
"The integration with other systems could be improved."
"HP needs to work on the stability as it is mostly dependent on Java and there are console-related issues."
"The platform is quite expensive. They should reduce its cost."
"The only thing I did not particularly like about the product was its speed on the web interface."
"We find that the search and access functionality is quite slow."
"Scaling this product is painful."
"It is really difficult to work in ArcSight Logger, as it is very slow."
"I think the ArcSight team should try to simplify legacy products for the customers, because that product is not easy to use or to work with. It needs more more competency or appeal to use. We hope Micro Focus is trying to resolve this."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"It can range between $30,000 and $40,000 USD, and can go up to $500,000 and $600,000 USD."
"My customers pay a yearly licensing fee for ArcSight Analytics."
"The monthly licensing fee is around $20,000. There aren't any costs in addition to the standard licensing fee."
"ArcSight Analytics is a bit expensive compared with other tools in terms of licensing costs, training, hardware implementation, and support."
"In addition to the costs of standard licensing fees, there is the cost of labor for maintenance."
"This solution is expensive."
"The pricing is quite harsh."
"ArcSight is an expensive solution."
"ArcSight Logger is very expensive compared to their competitors, but when we talk to the customer and explain what the features are and how we can scale, they understand. Still, ArcSight is more expensive than the competition."
"It's not cheap at all as it's a big product and has been in the market for quite some time now."
"Pricing is reasonable compared to similar tools on the market. They offer perpetual licenses."
"I rate the product’s pricing a seven out of ten, where one is inexpensive, and ten is expensive."
"I would rate the product a seven out of ten since it's an enterprise product."
"We have a lifetime license, so we don't pay a monthly fee."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Construction Company
18%
Financial Services Firm
10%
Outsourcing Company
10%
Marketing Services Firm
10%
Construction Company
10%
Outsourcing Company
9%
Financial Services Firm
8%
Comms Service Provider
8%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business4
Midsize Enterprise4
Large Enterprise7
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business8
Midsize Enterprise9
Large Enterprise17
 

Questions from the Community

What SOC product do you recommend?
For tools I’d recommend: -SIEM- LogRhythm -SOAR- Palo Alto XSOAR Doing commercial w/o both (or at least an XDR) is asking to miss details that are critical, and ending up a statistic. Also, rememb...
What needs improvement with ArcSight Logger?
This decision is made by higher management as they don't want to have multiple solutions for one solution. ArcSight Logger themselves don't provide good support, but companies such as ours provide ...
What is your primary use case for ArcSight Logger?
We do work for multiple SIEM solutions such as Splunk, QRadar, LogRhythm. My team and I mostly work on ArcSight Logger and Splunk because we are dealing with projects related to these solutions. We...
What advice do you have for others considering ArcSight Logger?
As a department head, my staff uses my credentials and contacts everywhere. Only ArcSight Logger with Splunk was implemented in Aramco, not in other organizations. I rate ArcSight Logger 8 out of 10.
 

Also Known As

ArcSight User Behavior Analytics, ArcSight UBA
Micro Focus Arcsight Logger, HPE Arcsight Logger
 

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Sample Customers

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China Merchants Bank, Bank AlJazira, Banca Intesa
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